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Sexy Losers
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Sexy Losers Sexy Losers is an adult web comic by an artist who uses the pseudonym Hard. The strip has a significant following; its web hosting company's promotional material indicated that it received one million unique visitors in August 2003. The strip, while satirical fare, draws from several themes generally alien to light comic fare, including necrophilia and incest. A number of its jokes are drawn from recurring elements of pornographic or animated pornographic (hentai) films. One character, for instance, is a bukkake film actress. The strip first appeared in April 1999; as of 2004, over two hundred strips have been produced. External Links Sexy Losers
Scarlet's Walk
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by the song "Taxi Ride," for which fans were asked to direct and submit music videos for a contest. The third single, "Strange," was released in a re-done version to radio. It was given a Country and Western feel with twangy guitars and additional vocals. The album also served as a "key" to "unlock" Scarlet's Web, a massive web site that contained special concert ticket offers, photos, merchandise, and most notably, unreleased B-side tracks which were only available to CD-owners through the web site. (The underlying reason for this was that people would buy the CD rather than download tracks illegally in order to get special content. This hardly deterred people from illegally copying the website-only material and distributing it.) There was a limited edition version released in a special box
Tori Amos
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Drop Inn" tour. Her fourth solo album, From the Choirgirl Hotel, was released in 1998. A departure from earlier records, it was much more heavily produced and featured much more prominent accompaniment to the basic piano sound. Again reviews were mixed, but the album was generally feted by Amos' fans. The accompanying tour was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with Alanis Morissette. Next, Amos planned to release a live album. She decided to write a small amount of new material to be included as a bonus disc in some releases; in fact she produced an album's worth of material, and the album became a double album, To Venus and Back (2000), with a live disc and a full
Throwing Muses
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label and released their untitled debut in 1986. Personnel has changed over the years. Kristin Hersch has also maintained a career as a solo artist. Tanya Donnelly formed Belly when she left Throwing Muses, though she has continued to guest in the band. Throwing Muses are officially broken up, though have regrouped on occasion to tour and record. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Personnel 2 Discography 3 External Links Personnel Kristin Hersch: vocals, guitar Tanya Donelly: vocals, guitar David Narcizo: drums Leslie Langston: bass Fred Abong: bass Bernard Georges: bass Discography (Untitled), 1986 Chains Changed EP, 1987 The Fat Skier EP, 1987 House Tornado, 1988 Hunkpapa, 1989 The Real Ramona, 1991 Red Heaven, 1992 The Curse, 1992 University, 1995 Limbo, 1996 In A Doghouse (2 CD compilation), 1998 Live in Providence,
E-mail art
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meaningful genre of art, as clearly almost any kind of digital-based art can be e-mailed, thus making it into "e-mail art," has been particular criticism of e-mail art by tradition-minded mail artists when the e-mail art has been perceived to be akin to mass media. Other criticisms of e-mail art from a mail artist's perspective have focused on the lack of dimensionality of the attachment, the lack of intimacy as opposed to real mail [1]. Many of the criticisms overlap those levelled against the Internet and World Wide Web in general. Some artists have also collaborated by sending e-mail attachments back and forth, a process known as Photoshop Tennis; the surrealist game of exquisite corpse has also been adapted to e-mail. (These have been paralled by collective musical compositions done by
Comics
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with some scholars insisting that their printed nature is crucial to the definition, or that they should be defined by the interdependance of image and text. Others define the medium in terms of its sequential nature. Longtime comics artist Will Eisner referred to comics as sequential art. Artist Scott McCloud refined this definition in his influential 1993 work of comics theory in the form of a comic, Understanding Comics. According to McCloud, "[Comics are] juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer." By this definition, single panel illustrations (such as the Far Side, or Family Circus) are not comics (they are cartoons). When comics originated is also a contentious matter. While many commentators will point to early precidents
Copyright
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enforced by the owner in a civil law court, but there are also criminal infringement statutes. Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity. Copyrighting fonts In the United States, font design is not copyrightable, but it is patentable if novel enough. Stone and Lucida are the only two patented typefaces, and this may not hold up in court. Europe used to have the same "can't copyright typefaces" laws as the United States, but Germany (in 1981) and the UK (in 1989) have passed laws making typeface designs copyrightable. The UK law is even retroactive (!), so designs produced before 1989 are also copyrighted, if the copyrights wouldn't have already expired (the German one is not retroactive). Rights beyond copyright Many European countries (and other countries as a result of
Clarice Cliff
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1899 - October 23, 1972), was a ceramic artist of the early to mid 20th century. Clarice was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, and began work at AJ Wilkinson's pottery factory in 1916. She was later given her own studio and in 1927 her famous ‘Bizarre’ wares were launched. Her works of this period were in the Art Deco style. In 1940 she married her then boss Colley Shorter and subsequently moved to nearby Chetwynd House. The factory continues to sell Clarice’s designs until 1964. In 1972 the first Clarice Cliff exhibition takes place at Brighton, East Sussex, for which she provides comments for the catalogue. Later that year Clarice died suddenly at Chetwynd House. 1999 saw the centenary celebrations of her life and work. This featured the ‘Bizarre Art’ exhibition at
Charlotte Moorman
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- November 8, 1991) was an American cellist and performance artist. Moorman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centary College (Shreveport, Louisiana) where she took her B.A in music in 1955. She received her M.A from the University of Texas (Austin, Texas) and continued on to postgraduate studies at The Juilliard School in 1962. She began a traditional concert hall career but was soon drawn into the active mixed-media performance art scene of the 1960s. She became a close associate and collaborator of Korean avant garde artist Nam June Paik, with whom she toured widely. In 1963 she established the New York Avant Garde Festival which played annually in various locations including Central Park and the Staten Island Ferry until
August 6
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end of the year due to fallout sickness). 1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent. 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law. 1985 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web" 1993 - Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1996 - NASA announces
Barbie
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of revolutionary soldiers in uniform are also supplied. 1977 : SuperStar Barbie is introduced. Eighteen inches tall Super Size Barbie® debuts. 1978 : SuperStar Barbie gets the SuperStar Stage Show. Fashion Photo Barbie® has photo shoots posing on a modeling stand. 1979 : Pretty Changes Barbie debuts. 1980 : Black Barbie, Hispanic Barbie, and the International Collection are marketed. The International Collection initially including Italian Barbie, Parisian Barbie, and Royal U.K. Barbie. The first Barbie doll convention is held. 1981 : Western Barbie doll goes country with Westward Ho and Classic Cowgirl. Dallas, her palomino horse, debuts. 1982 : Pink & Pretty Barbie debuts. Black Magic Curl Barbie debuts. Eskimo Barbie and India Barbie are added to the International Collection. 1983 : Twirly Curls Barbie®is marketed. Dream Date Barbie dates Ken.
Bill Holbrook
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is a prolific American comic strip writer and artist. Holbrook draws three strips: Kevin and Kell, an online-only strip (see K&K web page) Safe Havens, syndicated nationally in the USA (see Info about "Safe Havens") On the Fastrack (see Info about "On the FastTrack") His online biography (found on the Kevin and Kell web page mentioned above) says that every week he writes the story line for the next three weeks for one of his strips and draws the next three weeks worth of strips for another.
1991
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February 16 - Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others. February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian proposed cease fire agreement. The US rejected the agreement, but said that retreating Iraqi forces would not be attacked if they left Kuwait within 24 hours. February 23 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground-phase of the war. February 25 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 US Marines. February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields
John Singer Sargent
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known for his fine portraits. He is usually considered an American artist, although he spent most of his life in Europe. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to USA parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Carolus Duran. His portraits are remarkable for subtly capturing the individuality and personality of the sitters; his most ardent admirers think he is equaled in this only by Velázquez. Sargent's Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), done in 1884, is now considered one of his finest works, but it aroused so much negative reaction in Paris at the time that it prompted Sargent to move to London. Frederick Law Olmsted oil painting, 1895 Although Sargent spent less than one year in the United States, some of his finest work
Banner
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of work was lessened by new technology, and where leisure time was increasing. For more on the design and making of these banners, see: Banner-making. Church Banners Banners in churches have, in the past, been used mainly for processions, inside or outside of the church building. However, the emphasis has, in recent years, shifted markedly towards the permanent or transient display of banners on walls or pillars of churches and other places of worship. A famous example of large banners on display is Liverpool R.C. Cathedral where the banners are designed by a resident artist. For more on the design and making of church banners, see: Banner-making. Advertising Banners These are often made commercially on a plastic background, but a number of British towns and cities have whole series of banners
Bondage magazine
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either in sex shops or by mail order. They contained little advertising content, and were therefore entirely supported by the cover price. Typically, each magazine consisted of several multi-page pictorials of tied-up women, often with a fictional narrative attached, and one fictional story of three or four pages in length. Sometimes pictorials were replaced by artwork by a fetish artist. Another type of magazine was the "compendium magazine", usually consisting of a large number of individual photographs drawn from previous magazines, without any linking story. Because of their relatively small circulation, compared with mainstream pornography, most bondage magazines were printed in black and white, except for the cover and centerfold. In the 1980s and 1990s, experiments were made with adding more color content, but most magazine content remained black and white.
1996
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Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. Inspector Ritter attempts to conduct surprise inspections on the Republican Guard facility at the airport, but is blocked by Iraqi officials. July 5 - Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born. July 8 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a hand-delivered document, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Security the Realm," spelling out how Israel could abrogate the Oslo Accords, and pursue a permanent annexation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, among other policies. The paper had been prepared for him by Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Doug Feith, David Wurmser and John Bolton. July 17 - Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes killing
Andy Summers
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musical credits include motion picture film scores, his most famous assignments being Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Weekend at Bernie's. He also dabbled in late night television as the band leader and composer for actor/comic Dennis Miller's first talk show. Summers guest-starred in an episode of TV's The Hitchhiker and had an amusing bit part in the comedy Another You, starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. As an individual artist, Summers has released numerous recordings with his own collections of musicians, including John Etheridge, Vinnie Colaiuta, Robert Fripp, Herbie Hancock, Brian Auger, Eliane Elias, Tony Levin, Ginger Baker, Deborah Harry, Q-Tip, and Sting, among others. Summers also taped a two-part guitar instructional video for Hot Licks. In March 2003, Summers, Sting and drummer Stewart Copeland reunited for the momentous
Internet art
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in artistic websites, e-mail projects, artistic Internet software, Internet-based or networked installations, online video, audio or radio works, networked performances and installations or performances offline. Internet art as a "movement" is part of media art and electronic art. A few sub-genres of Internet art are form art, net.radio, browser art, web-specific art, spam art and code poetry. Internet art as a subgenre is a dubious construction really, since the internet is used by all kinds of artists in many different ways. Art in general has changed or expanded through the use of the internet. There's no established terminology for Internet art yet. In literature, the terms Internet art, Internet-based art, net art, net.art and web art are used together; not any of those names has predominated until now. Some feel the
Donna Summer
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though not as popular as Love to Love You Baby. I Remember Yesterday (1977) included the memorable hit single "I Feel Love", the first hit song recorded with an entirely synthesized backing track. This song, which became a major hit, is enormously influential in the development of disco, electronica and techno music, thanks to Moroder's innovative production. Once Upon a Time was released soon after I Remember Yesterday; it was another concept album, concerning the fairy tale of Cinderella. After acting (and releasing a Grammy-winning song on the soundtrack) in the comedy Thank God It's Friday, Summer released a live album Live and More, which became another smash hit album and included a cover of "MacArthur Park". Summer's songwriting was showcased on Bad Girls (1979), which included a hit single in
Apple Records singles
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numbered differently from the others. The first two digits of the Beatles singles are more or less consecutive. A link is provided for an artist only the first time the name appears. 2276 - Hey Jude/Revolution - The Beatles 1800 - Thingumybob/Yellow Submarine - John Foster & Sons Ltd. Black Dyke Mills Band 1801 - Those Were the Days/Turn Turn - Mary Hopkin 1802 - Sour Milk Sea/The Eagle Laughs at You - Jackie Lomax 1803 - Maybe Tomorrow/Daddy's a Millionaire - The Iveys (Badfinger) 1804 - Road to Nowhere/Illusions - Trash 1805 - Carolina In My Mind/Taking It In - James Taylor (reissued with B side "Something's Wrong") 1806 - Goodbye/Sparrow - Mary Hopkin 2490 - Get Back/Don't Let Me Down - The Beatles with Billy Preston 2531 - Ballad
A Hacker History
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selling operating-system source code to the Soviet KGB. Three of them are turned in by two fellow hacker spies, and a fourth suspected hacker commits suicide when his possible role in the plan is publicized. Because the information stolen is not classified, the hackers are fined and sentenced to probation. In a separate incident, 1989 a hacker is arrested who calls himself The Mentor. He publishes a now-famous treatise that comes to be known as the Hacker's Manifesto. 1989 Fry Guy is raided by law enforcement; sweep occurs for Legion of Doom hackers 1990 Law enforcement starts national crackdown on hackers because of AT&T long-distance service crash on Matin Luther King Jr. Day 1990 Operation Sundevil introduced After a prolonged sting investigation, Secret Service agents swoop down on organizers and prominent
Jewel (singer)
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she appeared in was in 1999 in Ride with the Devil, for which she received critical acclaim. Writing is nothing new for Jewel since she has been writing poetry most of her life. She has at least two published works. A Night Without Armor is a collection of some of her poems. Chasing Down the Dawn is a collection of diary entries and musings detailing her life growing up in Alaska, her struggle to learn her craft and life on the road. In 2003 Jewel underwent a drastic image change with the release of her album 0304. Her video for the debut single Intuition had her cavorting in full dance numbers, often scantily clad in bras and bikinis. The song and video seemed to be intended as social commentary on the
Big Audio Dynamite
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Westway to the World). The first BAD album, This Is Big Audio Dynamite released a year later, is generally recognized as the first album by a major recording artist to include digital sampling techniques. The single "E=MC2" was in heavy rotation in dance clubs at the time. 1986's No. 10, Upping St. reunited Mick for one album with former Clash-mate Joe Strummer who co-produced the album and co-wrote a number of songs, but that reacquaintance soon ended. BAD opened for U2 on their 1987 world tour, then followed with 1988s Tighten Up, Vol. '88 and 1989/1990s Megatop Phoenix. After a complete reworking of the lineup that left Jones as the sole remaining original member, BAD then released 1991's The Globe, which produced the band's most commerically successful single, "Rush". After signing
Florentin Smarandache
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Smarandache (born December 10, 1954) is an American-Romanian mathematician, writer, poet, and artist. Born in Bălceşti, in the Romanian district of Vâlcea, he fled the country in 1988 and emigrated to the United States in 1990. He obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the State University of Chişinău, Moldova, in 1997. He works as an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico, Gallup branch, a two-year college. Smarandache has published poems, a novel, dramas and fiction in Romanian, French, and English. His writings often have a paradoxical bend, and in fact he describes himself as a "leader of paradoxism". He invented a new idiosyncratic approach to dialectics he calls neutrosophy. In mathematics, he has published in number theory and statistics. His most influential work was a book listing
Baillie Scott
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- February 10, 1945 ) was a British architect and artist He was born at Beards Hill, St. Peters near Ramsgate, Kent, the eldest of 14 children. During 12 years living in the Isle of Man, the first 4 years he lived at Alexander Terrace, Douglas. In 1893 he and his family moved to Red House, Victoria Road, Douglas, this was designed by Baillie Scott himself. To start with Baillie Scott worked with Fred Saunders, they both went to the Isle of Man School of Art also in Douglas. In May 1891 he was an Art Teacher with his certificate. It was at the school of art that Baillie and Archibold Knox became friends. Baillie Scott then left Saunders and set up his own business in 23 Athol Street, Douglas. Baillie
1999 in music
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Manson files a defamation countersuit against former Spin Magazine editor Craig Marks, in response to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that Marks filed in January against the singer, the record label Nothing/Interscope, and Manson's bodyguard agency. February 20 - Trace Adkins performs his first concert following surgery for tendon damage and a broken ankle. Contrary to doctors orders, Adkins does not remain seated during the performance. February 25 - The Artist Formerly Known as Prince files a lawsuit against nine Web sites for copyright and trademark infringement, claiming that the websites sell bootlegged recordings and offer unauthorized song downloads. March 1 - Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio Compact Discs by 8 cents March 2 - The House Of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Bob
Jackson Pollock
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- August 11, 1956) was an influential American artist and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Cody, Wyoming, and later moved to New York in 1929, where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton. Pollock moved away from figurative art, and developed techniques of splashing and dripping his paint onto canvas (action painting). Pollock was dubbed "Jack the Dripper" due to his painting style. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project, in the 1950s and 1960s Pollock was supported by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). Pollock's career was cut short when he died in a car crash in 1956. He was the subject of the documentaries Jackson Pollock (1987) and Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long
The Band
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as headline act, and the resulting anxiety, especially felt by Robertson who undertook hypnosis to combat it, was an influence on their next work, the self-explanatory Stage Fright (1970). The album was probably The Band's last classic work, with subsequent records being increasingly disappointing. The exception is the live Rock Of Ages (1972), recorded at a New Year's Eve 1971/1972 concert and featuring the line-up, bolstered by the addition of a horn section, in exuberant form. By 1976, seemingly tired of the constant workload, they retired from touring with a massive Thanksgiving concert on November 24, featuring a full orchestra and a stellar list of guests, including Hawkins, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Staple Singers, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Neil Diamond. The concert, filmed as The Last
Enya
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Anglicized "Enya Brennan") is Ireland's best-selling solo artist. But Enya is really three people: Enya herself; Nicky Ryan, who produces her records; and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics. Enya is a phonetic approximation of how Eithne is pronounced in Irish Gaelic. Her albums are: Enya (1987) Watermark (1988) Shepherd Moons (1991, won 1992 Grammy for "Best New Age Album") The Celts (1992) (remastered rerelease of the 1987 album Enya) The Memory of Trees (1995, won 1996 Grammy for "Best New Age Album") Paint The Sky With Stars (1997) (mainly contains remixed and remastered versions of earlier songs) A Day Without Rain (2000, won 2001 Grammy for "Best New Age Album") In 1980, Eithne joined the group Clannad (the members included siblings Máire Brennan, Pól Brennan, and Ciarán Brennan). She left
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